Donald Trump has proposed an unprecedented idea to continue putting pressure on Nicolás Maduro. The White House has suggested a plan to drop leaflets from US military planes over Caracas to further pressure the Venezuelan president, according to sources close to the matter consulted by the newspaper. .
Finally, the operation has not been authorized. The US presidency intended to mobilize its military planes to launch the pamphlets this Sunday, to coincide with the 63rd birthday of the Venezuelan president.
As stated by the sources consulted by the newspaper, it was intended that the pamphlets would contain information about helping to arrest Maduro that the White House, announced in ataste At this time, he doubled the amount, arguing that the Venezuelan president is involved in “narcoterrorism” operations.
The proposal would represent an additional step in Washington’s pressure campaign to overthrow Maduro, an objective that Trump already set in his first term (2017-2021) and, since the summer, Washington has implemented a huge military deployment in the southern Caribbean to pressure Maduro, and, according to the White House, combat drug trafficking.
The above has led to the destruction of twenty boats, apparently loaded with drugs, and the death of 83 of their occupants. For his part, President Trump, in mid-November, who had made a decision on how to proceed with Venezuela in regards to possible military action, which has further increased tension with Caracas.
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States issued a notice urging commercial flights to “exercise extreme caution” when flying over Venezuela and the southern Caribbean in the face of the “potentially dangerous situation” derived from the increase in military activity in the region. This has led several European and American airlines to cancel their flights to the Caribbean country,
